Sentences with phrase «brain in a similar way»

Looking at a fearful face, which activates the brain in a similar way to feeling fear, enhances sensitivity to visual contrast, but whether it improves vision across the board wasn't clear.

A new study revealed that addiction to social media sites affects the brain in a similar way that cocaine does.

Often the hardest games to describe are puzzlers with simple concepts and I hope I have managed to make Quell Memento sound anything but boring, as it's a lot of fun and taxes your brain in similar ways to Sudoku and Chess.

If you work your brain in similar ways, through strenuous mental exercise, you feel the same.

Not exact matches

Though some neuroscientists have suggested that internet addiction can alter the brain in ways similar to alcohol and drug addictions, researchers have yet to provide similar data for smartphone addiction.

In June, neuroscientist Adam Anderson's team at Cornell University demonstrated that, though our feelings may seem unique, our brains process them using a similar pattern of brain cell, or neuron, activation — meaning we feel feelings the same way.

Single modules of the brains, for example, are wired in a similar way, and both animal groups have a prefrontal brain structure that controls similar executive functions.

If a similar switch exists in people, it might provide a new way to keep human brains young.

«It seems the serotonin helps respond to the rhythmic movement of the worm in different ways, similar to how serotonin is thought to drive arousal in the human brain,» said Collins.

We might think that the brain works in a similar way to a computer: after all, even computers work through electrical signals.

«What we can see is that space - time at the quantum - scale might be networked in a very similar way to things we are starting to understand very well like biological networks in cells, our brains and online social networks.»

Modern neuroscience has kindled a similar revolution in the way we think about the brain.

Deep - brain stimulation involves the surgical placement of electrodes in the brain to deliver stimulation to targeted areas that control movement, similar to the way pacemakers are used to maintain a healthy heart rate.

A study published September 2 in Science suggested that dog brains comprehend speech in a similar way to human brains.

Although yeast has neither nerves nor brains, proteins in some unusual strains clump in a similar way.

Slater's virtualised experiments got similar results to the originals, strongly suggesting that people's brains react to virtual situations in analogous ways to real ones.

«These [new] findings suggest that, despite completely different brain organization and hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary divergence, pigeons and monkeys solve this problem in a similar way,» says Brannon.

Mouse brains and human brains are similar in lots of ways, but they are very, very different in others.

In the study, Bruce Hope, from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues used animal models to investigate if the brain forms drug - related memories in a similar waIn the study, Bruce Hope, from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues used animal models to investigate if the brain forms drug - related memories in a similar wain Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues used animal models to investigate if the brain forms drug - related memories in a similar wain a similar way.

But until the CAM - ICU - 7 there were no similar ways to monitor disease progression in acute brain failure.»

The drug DMT acts on the brain in different ways from the drug Salvia, but the algorithms inferred that both elicit a similar response.

According to Tramper, the brain has a clever way of getting around both problems: It combines the old information from the senses with experience gained through similar movements made in the past.

There is no way to create a «schizophrenic» mouse, Meyer emphasizes, but certain key cognitive deficits and behaviors can be measured in both animals and humans and are thought to rely on similar brain regions and neural circuits.

It may be possible in future studies, he suggests, to determine whether children with developmental disorders like autism have brain structures that differ from the norm in a similar way.

Similar to the way neurons are connected in the brain, neural nets stitch together tiny programs that collaboratively find patterns in data.

After analyzing the MRI imaging of the dogs» brain activity as the animals listened to each combination, the researchers found that the dogs — regardless of intonation — responded to the words of praise with heightened brain activity in the left hemisphere in a way similar to humans.

Faster and more powerful computers: CeNTech Prof. Wolfram Pernice from the Physical Institute of the University of Münster, together with scientists from Belgium, France, Great Britain and Switzerland, want to develop an intelligently networked computer technology that works in a similar way to a brain.

The results suggest that brain tumours adapt their chemical reactions in very similar ways to survive in the brain, despite starting in very different types of cells and regions.

«So, heart health recommendations are similar in many ways to brain health recommendations, with this exception: The brain has higher levels of Omega - 3s than any other tissue in the body, making adequate levels even more essential.»

Eating sugary foods like chocolate excites your appetite and activates the same neurotransmitters that prompt the brain's pleasure state — in a similar way to what addictive drugs like heroin do.

Iron deficiency gets all of the spotlight, but other types of anemia also exist and can affect the body in similar ways — causing fatigue, neurological symptoms like brain fog or depression, or dizziness.

HGH also acts in a similar way to anti-depressants, which in turn raises the B - endorphin levels in the brain.

A new study in rats suggests that junk food can affect the brain in ways similar to drug abuse.

«Indeed, even physiological aging is characterized by a progressive decline of motor abilities and patho - anatomic features of neuronal degeneration in the brain, which in many ways are similar to key characteristics of PD (but which do not evoke clinically - relevant signs of PD).»

There is also a protein in the pancreas that can clump together in a similar way as is seen in the brain in AD and cause pancreatic dysfunction, but the connection between these conditions is unknown.

As a psychologist trained in cognitive development, I believe that human beings continue to learn in similar ways across the generations — we don't sprout new brains or new minds.

His brain has developed in a similar way to that of any high - achieving chess player, musician, doctor, or anyone else who has spent years perfecting their art.

Engaging our brain in this way transfers back to other activities and can produce similar results to mindfulness meditation.

Human and dog brains process sounds in similar ways, and this may allow the two species to understand each other's emotions, new research shows... read more

The canine brain maps showed Berns that dogs use a region of the brain known as the caudate nucleus in a similar way to humans.

Faced with a portal on either side and both brains being restricted by enemies (imagine the cone shapes that represent the enemies in the Metal Gear Solid mini map), I only had one option of movement, it wasn't until exhausting what I thought were all my options that I realised not only could I move between both sides, but I could apply the items available to me in a similar way.

As a brain scientist, Dr. Kandel has functioned in a similar way, by studying sea snails — a simpler life form — to better understand the human brain.

In contrast, Turrell physically constructs similar effects with lights, scrims, and drywall, creating immersive environments that interrogate the location of phenomena: whether it occurs in the physical attributes of light and space, in the viewers» retinas, or in the way the brain fuses this sensory information togetheIn contrast, Turrell physically constructs similar effects with lights, scrims, and drywall, creating immersive environments that interrogate the location of phenomena: whether it occurs in the physical attributes of light and space, in the viewers» retinas, or in the way the brain fuses this sensory information togethein the physical attributes of light and space, in the viewers» retinas, or in the way the brain fuses this sensory information togethein the viewers» retinas, or in the way the brain fuses this sensory information togethein the way the brain fuses this sensory information together.

Increased damage to brain tissue, in ways that appear similar to the kind of damage that causes memory loss and Alzheimer's.

[108] Although I did not find the plaintiff to have mild traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder, the impact that her psychological condition has had on her life is in many ways similar to what is seen in cases involving those conditions.

Some of these techniques are based on science that shows that the same pleasure / reward centres in the brain that light up for slot machine wins react in a similar way to «likes,» friend requests, message notifications and @ mentions.

Apple has been hiring a string of people well trained in speech recognition, and is in the process of constructing artificial neural networks to process information in ways similar to the ways our brains do, according to an article yesterday from Wired.

It is based on the way in which the brain recognises similar patterns, e.g. if you show someone a picture of a bird and then only show the tips of the wings and head, it will still recognise it as a bird or a possibility that it might be a bird.

The research team, led by Bianca P. Acevedo and Arthur Aron, found that the «dopamine - rich brain regions associated with reward, motivation and «wanting»» were activated in similar ways between newly in love couples and those who've experienced «romantic love» over the course of many years.

A neurological study from Stony Brook University revealed that couples who experience «romantic love» long - term can keep their brains firing in similar ways to couples who have just fallen in love.